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... animals , but you will not see the animals themselves . But in a forest which you know to be so vast and so boundless you ... animal as an elephant is sometimes invisible at fifteen yards , and almost always invisible at thirty yards ...
... animals , but you will not see the animals themselves . But in a forest which you know to be so vast and so boundless you ... animal as an elephant is sometimes invisible at fifteen yards , and almost always invisible at thirty yards ...
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... animal at its base , but can discover nothing . Sometimes one single leaf amidst the numbers on a branch may begin without apparent cause to be violently agitated , and will as suddenly stop . The Malays always consider themselves as in ...
... animal at its base , but can discover nothing . Sometimes one single leaf amidst the numbers on a branch may begin without apparent cause to be violently agitated , and will as suddenly stop . The Malays always consider themselves as in ...
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... animal in the native State of Perak . In the first place , it was kramat : that is to say , the Malays credited it with supernatural powers , and imagined it to be protected against all danger by a guardian spirit . It often happens ...
... animal in the native State of Perak . In the first place , it was kramat : that is to say , the Malays credited it with supernatural powers , and imagined it to be protected against all danger by a guardian spirit . It often happens ...
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... animal , and once a party of five picked Malays had met the rhinoceros and had fired fifty shots at it . I heard the headman tell the story once . " It was no child's play , " the old man said , turning fiercely on one of an audience ...
... animal , and once a party of five picked Malays had met the rhinoceros and had fired fifty shots at it . I heard the headman tell the story once . " It was no child's play , " the old man said , turning fiercely on one of an audience ...
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... animal that will not die . " The animal's third claim to distinction lay in its horn , which was said to be of exceptional length and girth , and also to be blue . Malays divide rhinoceroses into four classes , according to their horns ...
... animal that will not die . " The animal's third claim to distinction lay in its horn , which was said to be of exceptional length and girth , and also to be blue . Malays divide rhinoceroses into four classes , according to their horns ...
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Ahman Alang Abdullah alarm Allah animal bait bank beaters Bentong Bernam river boat brute canoe caught Changkat charm Cheap Edition Church of Scotland close cloth creepers crocodile crocodile's Crown 8vo dead deer Demy 8vo drive dug-out elephant eyes farther Fcap feet fish followed foot forest French morocco George Eliot goat guns head heard hill hook house-boat Illustrations killed leaves light LL.D Malay Peninsula Malias Manap mangrove miles morning mouse-deer mouth move Muhammadan Nabi Sleman night nooses paddled paper cover path pawang Pawang Duhamat Perak Perak river perhaps plain Portraits Post 8vo raja rattans reached realise rhinoceros rice rifle river round royal 8vo Scotland Second Edition Senik shoot shot shoulder shouted side sidins Sir Peace sladang slowly soon spear spirits story stream tapir thy slave tiger tree tuba turned University of Edinburgh village vols
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